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‘Rashtrapatni’ Row: Battle Of Words Between Smriti Irani, Sonia Gandhi Over Adhir Chowdhury’s Controversial Comment

Isha PoddarJuly 29, 20220

Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Union Minister Smriti Irani were entangled in a great face-off in the Lok Sabha on 28 July over Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury’s consideration of President Droupadi Murmu as a “Rashtrapatni”. The sharp exchange occurred between House adjournments and will not be part of Parliament’s official records. Mr Chowdhury’s selection of terms to relate to President Murmu on a TV channel ignited a conflict between the B. J . P and the leading Opposition group, with Parliamentary Affairs and Minister Pralhad Joshi demanding an apology from Ms Gandhi. The Congress, in turn, approached the Lok Sabha Speaker to refer their complaint — against those BJP members who allegedly ‘surrounded’ the Congress chief — to the Privileges Committee. Mr Chowdhury’s...

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Shilpa Shetty-Richard Gere Kiss Case: Actress Pleads Court To Reject An Appeal Against Her

Isha PoddarJuly 29, 20220

The 2007 compassion event in New Delhi, which saw Hollywood star Richard Gere kissing Shilpa Shetty, doesn't seem to leave the Bollywood actress. Shetty, acting through her lawyer, Prasant Patil, has sought the clearance of a request contesting the January order of a Ballard Pier, Mumbai, magistrate court releasing her from a profanity case, then from the incident. In April, the Alwar, Rajasthan, police had met the sessions court against the magistrate's declaration and stated in its appeal that the magistrate had erred in releasing Shilpa and that her act of kissing or permitting her to be kissed in a public place amounted to profanity. The police had asserted that if the court evaluated the FIR, it would find that a prima facie case was made against the actresses s. In her reply, She

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Favelas, Slums Of Rio: An Expedition Through Streets Of Brazil

Agamapar ChadhaJuly 29, 20220

Rio has long allured visitors to its splashy seaside resorts and colourful communities, from Ipanema to Copacabana. However, the spectators watching the Olympics this summer will hear a cultural term that describes other pockets of neighbourhoods surviving — and thriving — within Brazil's second-largest city: favela. Regardless of it being a Portuguese word that is related to criminal activities and penury, these informal working-class boonies are seeing a resurgence as well. Euclides da Cunha, a Brazillian author, once described a "mount Favela" in his work about Brazil's civil war of 1897. Soldiers had stationed on a hill where the thorny favela plant grew in the northeast region and made a temporary mess out of shacks. When some of the soldiers went back to Rio, they settled o...

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China Steps Closer To Taiwanese Border: US At Border Checkpoint Duty

Agamapar ChadhaJuly 29, 20220

When American President Biden promised to intervene with force in the case of China invading Taiwan last month, a foreign ministry spokesman brutally responded to the president, “If the US continues to go down the wrong path, the US will have to pay an unbearable price.”Coincidently this statement was given on the same day Russia and China had a joint nuclear bomb exercise near Japan. This concerns Washington and Taipei as China seems more inclined to annexe Taiwan through military force. Phil Davidson, a retired admiral of US forces in the Indo—Pacific region, said, “This is the decade of concern, particularly between now and 2027. I make that assessment because of the staggering improvements in Chinese military capabilities and capacities, the political timeline for Xi Jinping and...

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GST System After Five Years: Political Discomfort That Still Continue To Ruffle Centre, States

Snehashish RoyJuly 28, 20220

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) system in India celebrated its fifth anniversary on July 1. The largest shift to India's fiscal framework since Independence was unquestionably introduced in 2017. By agreeing to jointly charge taxes on both commodities and services, states and the Union consolidated a wide range of indirect taxes under one broad guise. The states and the Centre used to have separate roles from which they could make their own money. GST was introduced to the Indian populace with tremendous excitement. At the time, Arun Jaitley, the Union finance minister, asserted that it would increase economic growth by an astounding 1% to 2%. Supporters said that the single, straightforward tax would boost tax revenues and make it simpler for businesses to comply. Magnified advan...

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Boris Johnson ‘Trumpeted’ As Next Boss Of NATO

Vikas DeshwalJuly 28, 20220

The United Kingdom's armed prime minister, operating his statement years after senior political party partners caused him to leave, could perform NATO if his remaining followers are to be believed. Boris Johnson, who will depart Downing Street on Sept 6 after the Conservative Party's 170,000 rank-and-file partners have chosen an inheritor, has been dogged by humiliation in recent months and appears an improbable future secretary-general of the Western safety partnership, given that victorious applicants are usually untainted by discussion and advocated unanimously by the institution's 30 member states. The Telegraph newspaper, which operated Johnson as a columnist, said he "is being trumpeted as a contender" to substitute Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, who is assigned to stand dow

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Story Of “True Friends” 1971: How Russia Defended India Against West Backed Pakistan

Vikas DeshwalJuly 28, 20220

The whole planet knows that New Delhi and Moscow are all-weather buddies, and the bond is not just because of strategic ties but also the bond between the individuals of the two countries. Since the days of the USSR, Russia especially sided with India, and New Delhi sided with Moscow. Today, when India is lining up with USA and Russia is aligning with China, Russia and India are still each other's tightest friends. Many Indians helped Russia during the Ukrainian crisis, even after knowing that Russia had begun this war and attacked Ukrainian cities. Till today, two Indians proved they died in Ukraine. Why does India still support Russia In Russian-Ukraine War?   Some guidance can be found by glancing around in duration. On August 9, 1971, New Delhi and the USSR marked a 'Peac

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Dangerous Signal For Integrity Of Pakistan: Former PM Imran Khan Warns Islamabad To Be Divided Into Three Parts

Vikas DeshwalJuly 28, 20220

Ex-Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, has alerted that the nation will become a civil war if elections are not revealed. Khan expressed he was pausing for the pinnacle court to determine his party's request to watch the protesters, after which he declared he would allocate the date for the next march. The PTI head confessed he did not want absolute authority as the prime minister, suggesting that the centre of power in the homeland lay elsewhere and "everyone understands where that is." Khan said his administration had been "weak" when it reached power and had to pursue cooperation members, counting that if the exact situation arose again, he would opt for re-elections and seek a majority government or none.   "Our hands were tied. We were squeezed from every place. The inte

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Anti-UN Protests In Congo Brings Great Diaster; Several People Murdered

Isha PoddarJuly 28, 20220

At least 15 people, concurrently with three U.N. pacifists, have been murdered and 60 others injured in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo in an escalating of dayslong revolts against st the United Nations in a mineral-rich area that has been destroyed by chronic deadly riot. Protesters have been urging the withdrawal of the Pacifist troops, indicting them of failing to conserve civilians from a recent storm of outbreaks by the military, groups that have terrorised the nation for years — removing hundreds of dead or wounded and urging more than 160,000 people to flee their residences this year solitary. In recent weeks, many administration administrators and a youth group associated with the ruling party have fired outrage at the U.N. forces. On Tuesday, two Indian police of...

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The Wagner Group: Emperor Putin’s Personal Regiment Group

Agamapar ChadhaJuly 28, 20220

The USA has well-established private militia companies willing to provide trained militants with arms to invade, defend or secure targets. Even the US government has given these companies the government to fight in the Afghan war, through which these firms have heavily profited and flourished in their ventures. On the other hand, most countries, including Russia, have banned the privatisation of armies. However, the 'Wagner Group, based in Argentina, has Russian ties despite not being a part or recognised as an extension of Russia's military. The group came into being after it supported the separatist forces in the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republic from 2014 to 2015. The group was named 'Wagner' by its leader Dmitry Utkin in honour not Hitler's favourite composer.

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Kenyan Police Brutality: Kenya Follows Coloniser’s Steps

Agamapar ChadhaJuly 27, 20220

Ever since Europeans discovered Africa, history has been filled with squalor and suffering. Slavery, rape, and racism were the main features of the colonial land grab and slicing and dicing of colonies owned and controlled by European kingdoms and nations. Though the purge had ended a long time back, both in Africa and the region where their brethren were traded, discrimination reverberates in different forms in different countries in Africa. Kenya, much like other colonies, after more than 60 years of slavery, achieved its independence from the British in 1963. However, this hasn't stopped discrimination from being entirely abolished and has highlighted the Kenyans as the oppressor regarding the populace of Kenya that followers of Islam. Police enforcement and killings of Muslims h...

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Indian Men Still Don’t Prefer Working Women As Partners: Oxford

Arpita SarkarJuly 27, 20220

According to a 2022 study by Oxford University, women who are working are less likely to find matches on matrimonial sites than women who are not working. Diva Dhar, the doctoral candidate who conducted the experiment to test her theory, found that women who had never worked received 15 to 20 percent more interest than those who did. Basically, out of 100 men who respond to a woman who has never worked, only 78 to 85 will respond to a working woman. Dhar spends her time researching Indian women's participation in the labor force and how gender roles affect marriage and the lives of working women. The experiment began with her creating 20 fake profiles on a leading matrimonial website. They were similar in age, lifestyle choices, and diet, and the only differences were caste and w...

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